May 2012
23 posts
Invalid techniques of proof →
scipsy:
My favorites:
Proof by cosmology
The negation of the proposition is unimaginable or meaningless. Popular for proofs of the existence of God.
Proof by semantic shift
Some standard but inconvenient definitions are changed for the statement of the result.
Proof by religious belief
God told us that X is true
Proof by parent
“Because I said so.”
Proof by slippery...
